Re: [GNC] Absolute and relative pointers to associated items

2025-01-18 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hakon This may also be of help: [1]https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-March/083171.h tml Cheers Hop On 19/1/25 12:25, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: Håkon: You ask a good question, and I fear the documentation does not describe the present link path hea

Re: [GNC] what is best reconcile/update procedure?

2025-01-18 Thread R Losey
It is the habit in our household to put all paper receipts in a drawer, and I have a set time (each week) to enter those transactions (because so much is done online, I also go through email looking for electronic receipts). Please note that this is not a hard-and-fast rule; sometimes, I enter tran

Re: [GNC] reconciliation start date?

2025-01-18 Thread John Ralls
There is no reconcile start date. There’s a statement date and that sets the *default* ending balance for the reconcile and gets saved as the “reconcile date” on each reconciled split. There’s also a starting balance that is the balance of all of the reconciled splits in the account. The reconc

Re: [GNC] How to post "In Kind" donations

2025-01-18 Thread Ross Laver
Murugan Thanks so much for a well detailed explanation and procedure. Ross On Sat, Jan 18, 2025, 9:26 PM Murugan Mariappan wrote: > Hi Ross, > > When you receive an "In Kind" donation, such as someone purchasing postage > and not wanting reimbursement, you can treat it as if you received the

[GNC] reconciliation start date?

2025-01-18 Thread Brook Milligan via gnucash-user
I am trying to revisit some reconciliations that may be incorrect. Is it possible to set the reconciliation start date? Where is the start date kept and how is it controlled? Cheers, Brook ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To up

Re: [GNC] How to post "In Kind" donations

2025-01-18 Thread Murugan Mariappan
Hi Ross, When you receive an "In Kind" donation, such as someone purchasing postage and not wanting reimbursement, you can treat it as if you received the donation and then spent it on postage. Normally, you would debit the Asset:Bank and credit Income:Donations. Then, you would record the expe

Re: [GNC] what is best reconcile/update procedure?

2025-01-18 Thread Ken Pyzik
All — First, I want to apologize for the length of this rant. We will always agree to disagree on this subject. Please understand, I am a retired 30 year bank auditor. I know the purpose of what a reconciliation is. But what I don't understand is this obsession with doing monthly reconciliat

Re: [GNC] Absolute and relative pointers to associated items

2025-01-18 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Håkon: You ask a good question, and I fear the documentation does not describe the present link path head behaviour of GnuCash well. On 2025-01-18 11:50, ha...@finne.net wrote: Can someone please explain to me how to associate individual files (e.g. pdf copies of receipts) with their respect

Re: [GNC] what is best reconcile/update procedure?

2025-01-18 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Arthur: On 2025-01-18 13:06, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: i just keep personal books for the family. my update and reconcile procedure works but is a bit tedious.  I can't think of any better way and I doubt there is one but i thought it might be good to ask. At sort of almost random

Re: [GNC] How to post "In Kind" donations

2025-01-18 Thread David Cousens
Ross One approach would be to create an Asset account(s) and an Income account for in kind donations When a person makes such a donation with monetary value xxx by paying an expense Income:In Kind Donations Cr xxx Expemse:PostageDr xxx Where it is a physical object donated wh

Re: [GNC] How to post "In Kind" donations

2025-01-18 Thread David Warren
You could debit postage expense (important so you can see how much you spend each period on postage) and credit an income account for non cash donations. I think that's what actually happened... On Sat, Jan 18, 2025, 5:47 PM Ross Laver wrote: > I am the treasurer of a fraternal organization. I

[GNC] How to post "In Kind" donations

2025-01-18 Thread Ross Laver
I am the treasurer of a fraternal organization. I want to track "In Kind" donations for budgeting purposes. EXAMPLE: someone purchases postage and does not want to be reimbursed. Postage is a legitimate expense. Please help! Ross ___ gnucash-user mailin

Re: [GNC] what is best procedure to 'split off' to a new set of books?

2025-01-18 Thread David Cousens
If the credit card and debit card (presumably there is a personal savings account() are personal accounts and not owned by the business entity then they should remain in your books.  If the business account is owned by the business and is not a personal account then it should be in the books of

[GNC] what is best reconcile/update procedure?

2025-01-18 Thread arthur brogard via gnucash-user
i just keep personal books for the family. my update and reconcile procedure works but is a bit tedious.  I can't think of any better way and I doubt there is one but i thought it might be good to ask. At sort of almost random times I decide to update the books.  So I download from CBA transactio

[GNC] what is best procedure to 'split off' to a new set of books?

2025-01-18 Thread arthur brogard via gnucash-user
I have a personal set of books which includes credit card, debit card and business account. Now I want to create a new set of books just for the business.  which is very small, no trades at all as yet. But monies have been paid into it and out of it:  owner's equity,  fees, charges. So I believ

[GNC] Absolute and relative pointers to associated items

2025-01-18 Thread hakon
Can someone please explain to me how to associate individual files (e.g. pdf copies of receipts) with their respective transactions. I wish to have receipts for transactions linked to each bank account and each credit card account in their corresponding individual folders. I managed to achieve t

[GNC] Stock merger

2025-01-18 Thread Fred Tydeman
In looking at the Gnucash Help file, in the Moderately Complex stock Merger section, I see that the number of AT&T shares decreased, but I do not see anything about the SBC shares. The example seems incomplete. Because of that, I am not able to follow how to do a stock merger. This is for GnuCas